Shoe-ornament fastener.



C. S. CLINCH.

SHOE ORNAMENT FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 30, I914.

1,1453121 Patented July 6, 1915.

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CHARLES S. CLINCH, 0F LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO SHOE CITY NOVELTY COMPANY, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

SHOE-ORNAMENT FASTENER.

Application filed September 30, 1914.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES S. CLINOH, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Lynn, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe-Ornament Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to ornaments, usually in the form of more or less conventional bows attached to the vamp portions of pumps or other low cut shoes.

The invention has for its object to provide improved means for fastening an ornament of this character to a vamp in such manner that the ornament may be readily removed and another substituted for it.

The invention consists in the improvements which I will now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification: Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a pump and an ornament attached thereto; Fig. 2 represents a side view, showing the inner side of the ornament; Fig. 3 represents a side view of the inner plate hereinafter referred to attached to the vamp of a shoe; Fig. 1 represents a section on line 4141 of Fig. 1; Fig. 5 represents an enlargement of portions of Fig. 1, showing the inner and outer plates interlocked; Fig. 5 represents a fragmentary edge view of a portion of the inner plate and illustrating the detent which confines the movable latch in its operative position; Fig. 6 represents a View similar to Fig. 5, illustrating the method of connecting or interlocking the inner and outer plates; Figs. 7 and 8 represent views corresponding respectively to Figs. 2 and 3, and showing a different embodiment of the invention; Fig. 9 represents a view of the inner side of the plate shown by Fig. 8, removed from the vamp; Fig. 10 represents a view corresponding to Fig. 4, representing the embodiment of the invention shown by Figs. 7, 8 and 9.

Similar reference characters indicate the same or similar parts in all the views.

In the drawings, 12 represents a vamp of a shoe and 13 represents an ornament therefor, here shown as a bow of conventional form made by assembling and securing together layers of leather, fabric, or other material.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 6, 1915.

Serial No. 864,254.

My invention is embodied in a fastener adapted to separably connect the bow with the vamp, said fastener comprising inner and outer plates attached respectively to the vamp and the ornament and having interlocking members which are engageable with each other by successive endwise and sldewise movements of the ornament and the outer plate attached thereto, and are retained in interlocked engagement with each other by a movable latch carried by the inner plate.

Two embodiments of my invention are shown in the drawings, and I will first describe the embodiment represented by Figs. 2 to 6 inclusive.

The inner plate attached to the vamp 12 comprises a body portion 14 attached by suitable means, such as metallic fasteners or clips 15 engaged with the body portion 14 and with the vamp, as indicated by Figs. 3 and 4. Said inner plate also comprises two outwardly offset end portions 16 and 17 which are raised slightly above the outer surface of the vamp on which the body portion bears, so that tongue-receiving spaces are provided between said end portions and the upper. The portion 16 is provided with a relatively narrow slot 18 and the portion 17 is provided with a wider slot 19.

20 represents the outer plate which bears on the inner surface of the ornament 13 and is provided at its opposite ends with inwardly offset shouldered tongues 21 and 22. The outer plate 20 may be attached to the ornament by clips or fasteners 15 similar to the clips 15, and the tongues 21 are offset inwardly from the inner surface of the ornament.

Referring to Fig. 6, it will be seen that the outer plate 20 is adapted to be interlocked with the inner plate by successive endwise and sidewise movements, the first being in the direction of the arrow as and the second in the direction of the arrow The endwise movement inserts the tongue 21 in the narrow slot 18 and the sidewise movement inserts the tongue 22 in the wider slot 19. The shoulders of the tongues 21 and 22 are thus caused to abut against and engage the inner'edges 0f the slots 18 and 19, as shown by Fig. 5. The interlocking members of the outer and inner plates are confined in their interlocked engagement with each other by a movable latch 24 pivoted at 25 (Fig. 3), and adapted to be swung to the dotted line position shown by said figure, and thus caused to engage the tongue 22 and prevent the withdrawal of said tongue from the slot 19, as indicated by Figs. i and 5. One edge of the offset portion 17 is provided with a boss 26 (Figs. 5 and 5*) constituting a detent adapted to engage the latch 24 and hold it in its operative position indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 3.

lVhen it is desired to remove the ornament from the upper, the latch 24 is swung to the full line position indicated by Fig. 3 and the tongue 22 is then free to swing out of the slot 19, after which the tongue 21 may be withdrawn from the slot 18.

In the embodiment of my invention shown by Figs. 7 to 10 inclusive, the innerplate is composed of a body portion 14? and offset end portions 16 and 17. The latch 24: is formed of a piece of spring wire having a shank portion 24 (Fig. 9) confined by a bent-over portion M of the sheet metal of which the inner plate is made. The offset portions 16 and 17 are provided respectively with a narrow slot 18 and a wider slot 19. The outer plate 20, attached to the ornament 13, has at one end a tongue 16 adapted to engage the narrow slot 18*, and at the opposite end a tongue 22* adapted to enter the slot 19 and to be engaged by the latch 24, as indicated by Fig. 10. The latch is held in its operative position by its own resilience, no detent being required.

Having described my invention, I claim: A

' 1. A fastener of the character described, comprising an inner plate composed of a body portion attachable to ashoe upper and having outwardly ofi'set end portions formed to be separated by tongue-receiving spaces Copies of this patent may be obtained for from the upper, and each provided with a slot, one of said slots being relatively narrow and'the other relatively wide, an outer plate composed of a body portion attachable to an ornament and having inwardly offset shouldered end tongues formed to enter said spaces, one of said tongues being movable endwise into the narrower slot, and

the other movable sidewise into the wider slot, and a movable latch carried by the inner plate and adapted to be interposed between the offset end portion having the wider slot, and the tongue inserted in said slot and hold the shoulders of said tongues in engagement with the inner edges of said slots.

2. A fastener of the character described, comprising an inner plate composed of a body portion attachable to ashoe upper and having offset end portions, each provided with a slot, one of said slots being relatively narrow and the other relatively wide, an outer plate composed of a body portion attachable to an ornament and having shouldered end tongues, one movable endwise into the narrower. slot, and the other movable I sidewise into the wider slot, and a latch pivoted to one of the offset portions of the innerplate and adapted to be moved into engagement with the tongue inserted in the wider slot, the inner plate being provided with a detent adapted to confine the latch in its tongue-engaging position. 7

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

I CHARLES S. CLINCH.

Witnesses:

HELEN K. RANDALL, ROBERT E. RANDALL.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

